Who is the father of wheat?

Li Zhensheng (193 1 February 25th-), a native of Zibo, Shandong province, is a geneticist, an expert in agricultural development strategy, a wheat genetic breeder, and the founder of wheat distant hybridization breeding in China. He is known as "the contemporary Hou Ji" and "the father of China distant hybridization".

195 1 graduated from the department of agriculture of Shandong Agricultural University (now Shandong Agricultural University), 199 1 was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 19 1 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences.

Li Zhensheng is mainly engaged in the research of wheat genetics and distant hybridization breeding, and at the same time carries out the research of agricultural development strategy, systematically studies the distant hybridization between wheat and thinopyrum repens and breeds a series of "Xiaoyan" varieties, breeds high-yield and disease-resistant wheat varieties such as Xiaoyan No.4, No.5 and No.6, and breeds new hybrid types such as octoploid, alien addition lines, alien substitution lines and heterotopic lines of thinopyrum repens.

Personality assessment

Academician Li Zhensheng loves the motherland and has noble moral quality. He devoted his life to the research of wheat distant hybridization genetics and breeding, made outstanding contributions to China's food security, agricultural scientific and technological progress and sustainable development of agriculture, and trained a large number of academic leaders and scientific and technological backbones. Now he is active in the front line of agricultural scientific research and continues to contribute to the sustainable development of agriculture in China.